[Io] A few comments

[goran at krampe.se]

Howdy dudes!

Ken Causey <ken at kencausey.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 22:34 +0100, Cees De Groot wrote:
> > On 3/16/06, Ken Causey <ken at kencausey.com> wrote:
> > > System-gk.45.mcz.
> > I don't know what that's doing there. The Team's work should only
> > concern the Network and Files packages...
> 
> Because classes interact.  The procedure is that if a method in another
> category is affected by a change to a class within a categery for which
> you are responsible, then go ahead and make the change (since you should
> know best how to make it) then forward the changes to the appropriate
> team for there verification.  There is no System Stewards team right
> now.  So what we do is send it on to the Release team to verify and
> incorporate.  In either case, we are going to inevitably be handling
> changes to classes outside of our categories, we simply shouldn't be
> pushing them through all the way ourselves.
> 
> Ken

Exactly - and if Cees had read :) my original post in this thread he
would have read this:

> Any such bundle also typically includes other MCs
> outside of our domain with fixes - and the MC version note *clearly*
> explains what those are. So a "bundle" is actually a group of MCs where
> the version note of "our" MC naming the others (or else the release team
> will not understand what is included in the bundle).

regards, Göran